When attending CES, you never entirely get used to seeing technology concepts come to life, which once were only envisioned in science fiction books or movies. One of the hottest topics is that of artificial intelligence (A.I.) as we are now at crossroads of development that makes the advancements more prevalent. It is difficult for us to separate decades of fiction from reality when it comes to A.I., especially when much of the conversations still seem theoretical. I can tell you that this year's CES has presented some of the most defined applications related to A.I. when it comes to image recognition and deep learning. AiPoly initially developed an artificial intelligence image recognition application for the vision impaired and blind.

David Fletcher was born in England in 1952. On leaving school he studied production engineering for five years then jumped on an aircraft bound for New Zealand where he's lived ever since. He was employed as an illustrator and cartoonist by New Zealand's largest daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, for three years, but for the last thirty years he's been pretending to work from home as a comic strip artist. He draws two daily strips called The Politician and Crumb the Blackbird, also several weekly strips. His cartoons are syndicated to Europe, Britain, US, Africa, Australia and New Zealand.